Systems and methods for associating user personal information with wireless enabled devices

Abstract

A system and methods for storing and associating wireless enabled devices with personal information from their users are disclosed. The system may include a registry for storing the wireless enabled devices unique identifiers and their associated personal information. The system may also include methods for delivering content or triggering actions by identifying a user within range of a wireless access point. The user may be identified by a wireless enabled device unique identifier included in a probe message broadcast by the wireless enabled device and received by a wireless access point.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
 receiving, by an information string server computer, from a wireless access point a wireless identifier associated with a wireless device, wherein the wireless identifier identifies networking information of the wireless device; 
 determining, by the information string server computer, whether a record of the wireless identifier is stored in a registry database on the information string server computer; 
 determining, by the information string server computer, whether the record of the wireless identifier contains personal data describing a user associated with the wireless identifier, wherein the personal data includes at least one of the user's first name, the user's last name, the user's date of birth, the user's email, and the user's phone number; and 
 executing, by the information string server computer, one or more software applications by using the personal data of the user, in response to identifying that the record of the wireless identifier does contain the personal data of the user. 
 
     
     
       2. The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the record of the wireless identifier comprises a data field containing an indication of a software application to execute when the computer receives the wireless identifier from at least one wireless access point. 
     
     
       3. The method according to  claim 2 , further comprising:
 receiving, by the computer, the indication of the software application to execute; and 
 storing, by the computer, into the registry database the indication of the software application to execute, wherein the indication is stored into the record of the wireless identifier associated with the user. 
 
     
     
       4. The method according to  claim 1 , wherein a software application in the one or more software applications is selected from the group consisting of: a web browser, a social network application, and a wireless device configurations application. 
     
     
       5. The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising
 generating, by the computer, a new record for the wireless identifier in response to determining the one or more records of the registry database is not for the wireless identifier; and 
 storing, by the computer, into one or more data fields of the record personal data associated.